bodybuilding

Efforts to expand the boundaries of human strength and endurance have kept the scientist and the athlete occupied for centuries. Both in the gym and the laboratory, the challenge to add another pound of muscle or lifting the next kilo has been a never-ending goal. As the challenges for these people grow, the road to the answers and achieving them have become increasingly more elusive and complicated. Not too many ideas and concepts can stand up to the test of time as far as exercise physiology is concerned. There are only some things that we know for sure, even as we tackle the metabolic and genetic basis of skeletal muscle response to strength training.

For centuries, athletes and scientists have been trying to test and broaden the limits of human strength and endurance. The quest for another pound of muscle, or to lift the next couple of kilos has been relentlessly pursued in the health club and the laboratory alike. As the questions and conquests became more challenging, the solutions have become more elusive and complicated. Few concepts and conclusions have withstood the test of time in exercise physiology. Even as we tackle the metabolic and genetic foundation of skeletal muscle response to strength training, there are only some things that we know for sure.

The importance of protein in diet has been clearly established by nutritional scientists, and widely accepted by athletes. Among other vital functions, protein is indispensable for creating muscle. And protein’s essential potential to repair damaged muscles after training is just as vital[i].

Even though accurate nutrition information is easily accessed nowadays by virtually anybody with an internet connection or library card, the 21st century is still stuck with one of the many issues of the previous one: poor eating habits.

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